Comments on: What’s Wrong With All Those Exclamation Points!!! In Books or E-Mail!!! (Quote of the Day / ‘Send: The Essential Guide to E-Mail for Home and Office’) http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-all-those-exclamation-points-in-books-or-e-mail-quote-of-the-day-%e2%80%98send-the-essential-guide-to-e-mail-for-home-and-office%e2%80%99/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-all-those-exclamation-points-in-books-or-e-mail-quote-of-the-day-%e2%80%98send-the-essential-guide-to-e-mail-for-home-and-office%e2%80%99/#comment-7138 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:22:44 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=5807#comment-7138 Tacky is a good word for it. That might be more accurate than my “dippy.”

Age and context can be factors, too. It seems much more natural and acceptable for teenagers to overuse exclamation points than for people just a few years older, such as people in their 20s who are trying to impress coworkers in a first job.

]]> By: eBookGuru http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-all-those-exclamation-points-in-books-or-e-mail-quote-of-the-day-%e2%80%98send-the-essential-guide-to-e-mail-for-home-and-office%e2%80%99/#comment-7137 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:12:51 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=5807#comment-7137 The real problem with all the exclamation points, is that it makes your writing seem quite tacky. Like this!!! It’s like I don’t have anything to say at all!!! But I just keep shouting, because I can!!!

I haven’t read anything lately with too many punctuation marks of any type. I read alot though. When I do run across one I’ll come back and post it. The last Stephen King novel I read was chaulk full of errors, and run-on sentences, but I don’t think that qualifies as overusage.

Cheers,
Trevas

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